English

fandom

Fandom comes from English fan.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

Earliest quotation: 1896, Washington Post October 10: “'Who is this Swain?' is the question that is…”.

A compound of fan + -dom

Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- ‘to blow’

Latin vannus ‘fan for winnowing grain’

Old English fann ‘a winnowing fan’

Middle English fan

English fan

Every English word from English fan

noun The fans of a sport, activity, work, person etc., taken as a group.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.